Adrian Knight is a seasoned Acquisition Entrepreneur who specialises in buying and selling businesses.
Adrian’s first acquisition was a 30-year old consultancy that specialised in exit planning, building value in small businesses and then selling them for a premium, with clients ranging between £300k and £25m in annual revenue.
This consultancy, which had 8 national consultants and a small head office team, supported hundreds of business owners across the U.K. and achieved over £160m in accumulated small business sales.
Adrian bought this business for £1 and sold it 2.5 years later, seeing a healthy six figure return on his investment. However, the real value in this acquisition was that it gave Adrian phenomenal insight into how to build genuine value in businesses, ranging from start-ups to 8-figure revenue, and then sell them for a life changing exit on favourable terms.
In recent years, Adrian has used his business buying skills to build a multi-million children’s education group from the ground up, which he built in 24 months and all through no-money-down acquisitions.
His group currently educates over 10,000 under 5 year old’s each academic term and is run by an experienced management team, requiring just 3-5 hours per week of Adrian’s involvement.
Adrian spends his time guiding, teaching and supporting other entrepreneurs and business owners on how to buy a business, building transferable business value, exit planning and then how to sell a business.
He does this through a variety of programs, masterclasses, guides and accelerators. Adrian’s approach to coaching has become a guiding light for business owners who are trying to move their businesses and lives forward, but keep hitting a brick wall.
Adrian has a unique way of simplifying complex problems and topics, turning them into easily digestible formats. While he covers high-level theory, Adrian likes to deep-dive into the nuances of a topic, extracting the key points and turning them into simple-to-follow frameworks that can be easily implemented.
